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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Tartars reach Krakow for the attack in 1241, what do they do?
(a) Take hostages for several weeks and then release them.
(b) Burn the outlying villages and pillage the districts around the churches.
(c) Are defeated by the people of Krakow.
(d) See that is was a small city and leave.

2. Krakow welcomes which group of people?
(a) The villagers who stay to fight the Tartars.
(b) The people of Bulgaria who try to fight the Tartars.
(c) The Russians who are fleeing the Tartars.
(d) The Ukrainians who are fleeing the Tartars.

3. What does Joseph do when Pan Andrew is fighting with the stranger in the caravan?
(a) He lets the stranger's horse loose.
(b) He unloads the goods from the wagon.
(c) He drives the carriage for his father.
(d) He helps to break up the fight.

4. Where is the Charnetski family going with the caravan?
(a) They are traveling to Kiev.
(b) They are traveling to Ukraine.
(c) They are traveling to Lvov.
(d) They are traveling to Krakow.

5. Chapter 1 begins in what month and year?
(a) March, 1774.
(b) October, 1802.
(c) July, 1461.
(d) January, 1241.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most accurate description of the Tartar army?

2. What heroic act does Joseph do while in the marketplace?

3. As he ponders the attack on Krakow, of what is the trumpeter proud?

4. How does Pan Andrew Charnetski know the stranger is not Polish?

5. What ultimately happens to the trumpeter in 1241?

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